The International Quantitative Linguistics Association

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The International Quantitative Linguistics Association (IQLA) was founded in 1994 to promote the use of mathematical and
statistical methods in linguistic modelling, textual analysis, and related fields. Quantitative Linguistics covers the whole
spectrum of theoretical and empirical research in these areas, including observation and description of linguistic data,
formulation and empirical testing of quantitatively-stated linguistic and textual models relative to such data, and discussion
of associated methodological and epistemological issues.

Over the last three decades Quantitative Linguistics has undergone a rapid development with respect both to
theory and application. By introducing into linguistics the quantitative methods and models of scientific disciplines
in the natural and social sciences, it has promoted the development of new and exciting theoretical perspectives as well
as solutions to practical problems in the various branches of linguistic and textual research.

Announcements

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The 2018 QUALICO conference in Wroclaw, Poland has now taken place, and was considered a great
success by all who attended. Thanks go from IQLA to Prof. Adam Pawlowski and his team for all the hard work that manifested itself as a
well-organised, informative, and good-natured conference in a congenial environment. A collection of revised presentations is currently
being compiled, and will shorly be available at the above conference website.

The statutory meeting of IQLA members took place in the course of the QUALICO conference. The draft minutes of that meeting will be made available
in the members' area of this site in due course, together with the approved minutes of the 2016 meeting. Council membership also changed: see
the 'Contact' page.